punch out not playing and question

hello,

i'm still pretty new to all this but my recently soft-modded 3.2u (originally 3.4j) has been working ok until today when i tried to download/burn punch out and it gets stuck on the black screen without loading. i have searched on google and found out that maybe something special needs to be done to play punch out and other new games, but before i just start hacking away i thought i'd ask for the proper advice from this forum. i patched before burning using wiipatcher and the disk is being read but like i said it gets stuck on the black screen before loading. any advice?

thanks,

jo

ps - the first few games i burned i did not patch before burning as i'm just learning about this. should i patch every game i download and should i redo the few i burned already without patching? thanks again!